Roaming The Google Streets

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About This Travelogue

This blog is about the lesser known but beautiful, wonderful, huge, unique and sometimes bizarre places around the World. Started on January 1, 2009, it is an outcome of my association with Google Earth Community, which I joined on Sept. 29, 2006. Since then I have been regularly flying to almost all the corners of WWW (Whole Wide World) and have virtually adopted the age old motto - Perfect time to see the World is after retirement.

My favourite section in the Community is "Fun and Games" - in which members post riddles and puzzles on almost all subjects and generally give hints for searching and locating the relevant places and or events on Google Earth. I have made several hundred posts in this forum and must have solved about the same number, though several were beyond my grasp. Believe me it is not easy to solve these riddles - Finding the answer is 90% perspiration (research) and 10% inspiration but it is pure 100% joy and sense of exhilaration.

This forum provides a stimulus to my brain and keeps it active. I strongly recommend this for those who have time and penchant for solving puzzles, but a word of warning – it is highly addictive.

My travels around the World are not limited to Fun and Games only, however many of the places being covered in this travelogue were found as a result of my researches for making posts in Fun and Games or trying to solve the riddles given therein.

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All of us know from our childhood that Superman was born in Krypton, spent his childhood in town of Smallville and worked (as Clark Kent) in Metropolis. All these places were fictional places created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster.

However a town named Metropolis does exist in Illinois, Ohio and taking advantage of its name, the town's people wanted the town to be officially recognised as "Hometown of Superman". In 1972 Illinois State Legislature passed a resolution declaring the town of Metropolis as the Hometown of Superman.

In 1986 a seven-foot fiberglass statute of Superman was unveiled. However this being fragile was regularly vandalised. Subsequently in 1993 a giant 15 feet tall statue of 'Man of Steel' was unveiled in front of the County Court. The base of the statue is in the shape of Superman emblem.

Across the road there is a Museum containing a huge collection of more than over 20,000 Superman's memorabilia.

The town is full of names associated with Superman. There is a lane known as 'Lois Lane'. In June each year, the city holds an annual Superman Celebration and it is big draw with fans of Superman.

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